[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] nostatus-line option

[Diego Biurrun]

On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 10:14:08PM +0200, Attila Kinali wrote:
> On Fri, 18 May 2007 16:57:44 +0200
> Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> 
> > Attila wanted it, I've been meaning to implement it for ages, here it
> > is: A small option that turns off displaying of the status line.  Useful
> > if you wish to have full debug output but your terminal is slow or you
> > wish to redirect output to a file without the status line crap.
> 
> I'm against it ;-)
> 
> As just explained on IRC, it's not about disabling the status line
> at all, but about being able to filter out the status line at the
> mp_msg() level. After a discussion with Uoti, we came to the conclusion
> that filtering on MSGT_AVSYNC + MSGL_STATUS should be enough to detect
> it. Yes, it's brittle, but should work. If you'd think it's a bad
> idea, then a new MGST_STAUSLINE should be created.

I don't much like that idea and I have wanted a way to disable the
status line and nothing else for a long time.

> And btw: -quiet does the same what you want, just better.

-quiet does more than that.  Also, the semantics of that option are
broken.  MPlayer should output little or no messages with that option,
there is no reason for -quiet to behave different than what you would
expect from it.  It is a hack that we have another option,
-really-quiet, that works like -quiet should...

Diego